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chaikachi.bsky.social
Chai
@chaikachi.bsky.social
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She/Her • Digital Artist & Aspiring Comic Creator
mostly fanart and ocs for now

Can't help with any donations rn, sorry!

https://chaikachi.com
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my friend keeps telling me Samyr would look better without the glasses, but they serve a very important purpose 😎

#ocs #ocsky #comics
A two-panel comic of my OCS. The first shows Velia, a girl with short curly hair smiling brightly. The second panel is Samyr and a featureless NPC. The NPC is covering their eyes and yelling "too bright!" while Samyr looks on, his glasses now tinted. An arrow points to them explaining they're progressive lenses.
December 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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nepenthe

#ocsky #illustration #ocs
November 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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moth to a flame / spotlight to the stage

#ocs #ocsky
Sketch of my character Velia. She sits on the steps of a firelit alter, the light shines against her back. There's a forlorn expression on her face as she appears to be speaking to a moth resting on her hand. Sketch of my character Samyr. He is bowing with one hand to his chest, the other to his side, and his gaze looking up at the spotlight that shines on him. He wears half a tragedy mask with an expression of longing. His wardrobe is full of loose and flowy fabric, with two pieces hanging off his shoulders almost like wings.
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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ilu weird angle frieren
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Watched #TADC recently. Good show.
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Never gets old

#ocs #ocsky #comics
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Okay y'all can also have the grown up domestic RG sketch but pls be normal about it
November 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Some sketches for belated RG week entry

#rwbyrosegarden #rosegardenweek2025
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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If you see this, post your favourite Animal Crossing villager.

Genji, your gap moe is too good
November 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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"and i will hold you closer than you have been held..."

Rosegarden Week 2025 Day 3: I Can't Lose You Again

#rwbyrosegarden #rosegardenweek2025
Fanart of Ruby Rose and Oscar Pine from RWBY. They are both sitting in water, Oscar in the front with Ruby kneeling behind him. Oscar looks to be asleep while Ruby's expression is twisted in desperation. She hugs him tightly, her hand clasped around the fabric over his heart, and his hand holding hers in turn. His other hand holds a glowing rose petal as many more swirl around them. In the background, crowning Ruby, is a solar eclipse. Her signature red cloak spreads out behind like a shield against whatever ill fate the sky has in store for them.
November 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Rosegarden Week Day 2: Hugs

#rwbyrosegarden #rosegardenweek2025
A sketch of Ruby Rose rushing to hug Oscar Pine. They're clinging to each other with relief to see the other safe.
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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And I'll meet your eyes
For the very first time
For the very last 🕯️

#comics #ocs #ocsky
Part 1 of 2. A digital comic featuring original characters Velia and Samyr by chaikachi. The text is from a verse of the song Sloom by Of Monsters and Men. In the first panel, Velia's hand sets a lit candlestick down on a table decorated with books. One of them is open revealing illustrations of the two characters from the distant past on its pages. Velia is on the first and she is laughing, while Samyr is on the other. He appears to be smiling as he reads from some pages in his hand, but his face is obscured by a large drop of wax that's fallen on the page. The text reads: the books that I keep by my bed are full of your stories. Part 2 of 2. The rest of the comic shows a book that's been turned facedown, with theatre curtains falling from its spine like pages as Samyr holds a quill to the side of it. The centre frame shows Samyre and Velia in a masquerade dance in their current forms, the shadow behind them cast by the spotlight mirrors the shapes of their past selves, however. The hem of Velia's dress and Samyr's scarf both blend into the curtain as it lights aflame and carries down the bottom of the page, where Samyr now stands alone. His back is to the light, the masquerade mask on his face now showing a single tear painted on one cheek as he holds Velia's mask in his hands. The text reads: that I dress up from, a little dream of mine, a little nightmare of yours.
October 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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bitch.
October 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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"I miss tumblr :("

"it sucks that tumblr is so dead now"

bet.
Screenshot of the tumblr activity page ui. It shows a week of analytics with more than 5000 notes and 36 new followers.
October 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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You literally could not pay me to stop using tumblr. No other social media give me this kind of commentary on my drawings.
October 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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"The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands." - Carolyn Forché

Unpopular opinion but they are SO fun to draw 👌
October 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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♥️ PRAY FOR [ YOU ]

#deltarune #snowgrave #kriselle
First part of a Deltarune fan comic. The first three panels are of a young Kris Dreemurr kneeling on the ground with their hands clasped together. They're wearing a red horn headband as they pray, saying: oh angel up in heaven, please make me a monster too. The eye of the angel responds: sweet child... (Continued in next image) "be careful what you wish for". The second part of the comic shows Kris and Noelle Holiday both as teens. Kris is still kneeling on the ground, but it's Noelle's hand clasped between their own now. She lies before them, her face obscured, while Kris looks on in horror. The thorn ring adorns one of Noelle's fingers and a trickle of blood falls from their joined hands spreading to cover the floor.
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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oh deer

#deltarune #noelleholiday
Fanart sketches of Noelle Holiday from Deltarune. It's a sheet of 8 different expressions.
October 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Happy #PortfolioDay!
I'm Chai, an illustrator and comic artist from Canada. My favourite things to draw are detailed line work, glowy lighting, and character interactions. Open for full or part time work. 🙌
October 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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chili krisp...

#deltarune
Fanart of Kris Dreemurr from Deltarune. It is a series of eight different expressions.
October 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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apple of my eye

#deltarune #kriselle #snowgrave
Fanart of Kris Dreemurr and Noelle Holiday from Deltarune. They stand back to back in their dark world costumes, Noelle is wearing an additional ring and crown of thorns. Both are holding an apple up to their mouths, but where Noelle’s hold on the fruit is tentative, as if she’s not sure she wants to taste it yet, Kris’s is firm. Their expression conveys thinly veiled anger as they open their mouth ready to take a bite.
October 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Censoring what kind of art can be made/displayed is a violation of free speech and freedom of expression. It is also straight up Nazi shit. They did this in the 30s/40s; even had ""degenerate art exhibitions"". And when they weren't displaying it for mockery, they'd burn it instead. 1/3
Screenshot of the Holocaust Encyclopedia webpage. "Degenerate" Art Nazi leaders sought to control Germany not only politically, but also culturally. The regime restricted the type of art that could be produced, displayed, and sold. In 1937, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels made plans to show the public the forms of art that the regime deemed unacceptable. He organized the confiscation and exhibition of so-called “degenerate” art. The Nazis also claimed that the ambiguity of modern art contained Jewish and Communist influences that could “endanger public security and order.” They claimed that modern art conspired to weaken German society with “cultural Bolshevism.” According to Nazi ideology, only criminal minds could be capable of creating such so-called harmful art. The Nazis called this art "degenerate." They used the term to suggest that the artists' mental, physical, and moral capacities must be in decay. At the time, "degenerate" was widely used to describe criminality, immorality, and physical and mental disabilities.
September 21, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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still having a very normal time courtesy of deltarune (⁠ʘ⁠ᴗ⁠ʘ⁠✿⁠)
September 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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💕 ARTISTS! Please show:

✧ The first piece you did in 2025
✧ Your favourite piece of 2025
✧ Your most popular piece
✧ Your most recent piece

Been kinda all over the place this year aha. very humbled by the response to that comic on tumblr tho <3
Fanart of Ruby Rose and Oscar Pine from RWBY. They're sitting down with happy and relaxed expressions. Ruby sits in Oscar's lap with a steaming mug in her hands, while Oscar hugs her waist and rests his head on her shoulder. Digital fanart of Kris and Noelle from Deltarune. There's a snowglobe at the center with the two characters as children. They're smiling, dancing, and wearing their signature angel wings and monster horns. In the background, the two are older in their dark world costumes. A red sparkle glint's on Noelle's finger, and Kris' sword almost appears to stab through the glass of the globe and through the chest of their younger self. The last page of a black and white comic, it has three panels. The first is of a well, the second is of a hand holding a coin, and the third is a splash in the water. The text reads "I wonder what might change / if I gave myself permission / to want anything at all". Fanart of Kris Dreemurr, the roaring Knight, and the red soul from Deltarune. Kris sits at the center, clutching the cage they keep their soul kept in, as the knight swirls around them, "caging" Kris in turn, similar to the prophecy image from chapter 4. A thin green border reminiscent of the game's hitbox frames the whole piece.
September 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I will finish this comic this week or so help me 🍤 #wip
September 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM